Tag: Hellfire Club
366 – Nine-Tenths of the Law
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In which the Beast miniseries is actually a cleverly disguised Karma miniseries; Gateway’s moral alignment remains a mystery; Cannonball rocks some sideburns; there are many reasons to dislike Viper; and every #1 is somebody’s first.
X-PLAINED:
- An off-panel death
- X-Force #62
- Beast #1-3
- Karma’s family and backstory (again)
- Twin absorption
- MacGuffins and/or children
- Clearcut and Mindmeld
- Unconsciousness
- Spiral (again)
- Marios
- What to do (visually) with six arms
- Spiral’s mutates
- Some very impressive body horror
- MId-fight stalling
- Misplaced revenge
- Hank McCoy’s multiversal offspring
- The history of Karma’s sexual orientation
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As Mentioned in Episode 359 – Meanwhile in Britain
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LINKS & FURTHER BACKSTORY
- We covered the preceding events in Excalibur in Episode 337 – Wild Genes and Old Magic!
359 – Meanwhile in Britain
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In which Excalibur has a lot going on; Margali Szardos is never up to any good; Nightcrawler grows into leadership; we delve into the politics of superheroism; Pete Wisdom earns his keep; Miles catches a Prisoner reference; and we reach the end of Warren Ellis’ Excalibur.
X-PLAINED:
- John the Skrull
- Excalibur #100-103
- The current state of Excalibur
- Black Air (again)
- The Hellfire Club (London Branch)
- Australia
- Margali Szardos (more)
- Demonic ethernet
- Captain Britain’s new-old suit
- Emma Steed
- Dune
- Several fights
- Combat IT
- Boolean definitions of madness
- The Department
- Laserdisks
- Patriotism
- Many doppelgangers
- Nightcreeper
- Another reference to Dante’s Inferno
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As Mentioned in Episode 337 – Wild Genes and Old Magic
337 – Wild Genes and Old Magic
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In which Excalibur is beset by shady organizations; Nightcrawler gets a new look; nobody hates Pete Wisdom as much as Lockheed hates Pete Wisdom; Brian Braddock should not be allowed to dress himself; Excalibur invades Black Air; and Onslaught continues to lurk.
X-PLAINED:
- Some countries Magneto has invaded
- Excalibur #96-99
- Black Air (more) (again)
- The London branch of the Hellfire Club
- Nightcrawler’s new look
- Meggan’s new look
- The return of Alistaire Stuart
- How not to dress for the Hellfire Club
- The Shadow Cabinet (a little)
- Hacking
- Agent Scratch
- Avengers vs. Avengers
- Addiction recovery
- Accreditation of the Xavier School
- Developing a library X-collection
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As Mentioned in Episode 325 – Captain Bloodscream
325 – Captain Bloodscream
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In which we recommend against having a birthday in the Marvel Universe; Shinobi Shaw was a proto-Quentin Quire; Lee Forrester returns under the best possible circumstances; Bloodscream lives his best unlife; Belasco is apparently master of the cat people now; and a former Marvel intern returns to solve a mystery.
X-PLAINED:
- Bloodscream (again)
- X-Force/Cable Annual 1995
- Spider-Man Team-Up #1
- X-Men Unlimited #9
- The Impossible Man (and his slacker kids)
- The Clone Saga
- Benedict Kine
- A really superlative insult
- The continuity box
- Still more Bloodscream
- 30-50 feral hogs
- GHOST PIRACY
- Belasco (more)(again)
- The N’garai (more) (again)
- A follow-up to a mystery from Episode #323
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As Mentioned in Episode 324 – Snack Attack
324 – Snack Attack
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In which Cordelia Frost is a terrible friend; Mondo is better than the story arcs that surround him; and we’d really love to see a series about Sean Cassidy’s super groovy past.
X-PLAINED:
- The one who got away
- Generation X Annual 1995
- Generation X #10-11
- A failed seduction attempt
- Mondo and a plant-based facsimile thereof
- An emergency
- The very personal and private journal of Monet St. Croix
- A party
- Omega Red (again)
- Sean Cassidy’s Interpol days
- An unlikely informant
- A somewhat surreal monitoring system
- The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men Wiki
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